Weapons and Armor

Battling your way across Hyboria is no easy task. You’ll want to wield the best weapons that money can buy (or that can be pried from the corpses from your enemies).

Here are some important examples of weapons:

Edged weapons

This is mostly used to categorize various types of swords, weapons designed to slice, cut and make your enemy bleed! Can be used in one hand, two hands or dual wield.

Blunt weapons

This is mostly used to categorize various types of clubs and maces. Weapons designed to smash your enemies to a pulp! Can be used in one hand, two hands or dual wield.

Dagger weapons

This is mostly used to categorize various types of daggers, weapons designed to allow you to strike at your enemy swiftly! Can be used in one hand, two hands or dual wield.

Bow weapons

This is mostly used to categorize various types of bows and crossbows. These are designed to hit your target from a reasonably safe distance! These always require both hands.

Thrown weapons

This is mostly used to categorize weapons that your character can throw, such as knives and even some spears. Can be thrown from a distance, but nowhere near as far away as bows!

Polearm weapons

This is mostly used to categorize various types of polearms, lances and such. Weapons designed to create some distance between you and your enemy! Always requires both hands.

Succeeding in battle takes more than just a good weapon. It also requires that you have the right outfit to defend yourself properly from the attacks of your enemy. Armor is divided into different types such as cloth, leather, plate and more.

Here is some of the armor types explained:

Cloth armor

This material provides the least amount of defense, but allows the wearer more freedom of movement. Mostly used by casters and in various types of social clothing.

Light armor

This is used to categorize armor types such as leather and hide which is stronger than cloth, but still fairly weak. Some casters can use this, and most if not all melee-oriented characters.

Medium armor

This is used to categorize armor types such as chainmail and splintmail. Considerably stronger than the armor types above and mostly reserved for melee-oriented characters.

Heavy armor

This is used to categorize armor types such as halfplate and fullplate. This is some of the strongest armor you can find, and it can only be used by skilled melee-oriented characters.

Shields

Some character classes can equip a shield to aid them in battle. Shields can be heavy and hard to manage, so only the most able fighters are able to use them when fighting enemies.